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Democrats in the Senate fumed this week as Republicans blocked another of President Barack Obama’s nominees to sit on a federal appeals court, the third woman in a series of legislative obstructions. Members of the Senate Democratic caucus...

Have no fear of the coming zombie apocalypse, astrophysicist and “buzzkill of science” Neil deGrasse Tyson told America on Thursday night’s The Daily Show. It’s not happening. Zombies apparently defy the known laws of...

Voters in one Louisiana parish will decide Saturday whether to devote funding for their library to a new jail. Lafourche Parish Council Lindel Toups pushed the measure because he disapproves of some of the library’s programs. “They’re teaching...

An Alabama man convicted of raping a teenage girl will avoid prison after a judge sentenced him to a rehabilitation program for nonviolent offenders and probation. Austin Smith Clem, 25, was found guilty in September of raping a teenage neighbor...

Another restaurant customer apparently thinks it’s OK to stiff your server on a tip if you suspect she’s a lesbian. Server Dayna Morales said a family dining at Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater, New Jersey, deliberately skipped the tip on...

A transgender student in California said she was assaulted by other girls at the school in an attack captured on cell phone video. The Hercules High School student said the girls had been verbally harassing her about her gender identity prior to...

In a speech at Liberty University urging Christians to get involved in politics, Rafael Cruz said Wednesday that atheism and secular humanism resulted in sexual abuse. Cruz, the father of freshman Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), made almost identical...

Bill Maher has had enough of “Boston strong.” The talk show host said during Sunday’s broadcast of his HBO “Real Time” program that he thought it was time for the city to move on from its grieving over the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing. Maher...

If you think the rollout of the Affordable Care Act — also known as “Obamacare” — is messy, said Rachel Maddow on her show Thursday night, “you should have seen the rollout of the now wildly popular...

A local TV reporter salvaged a dog of a story by interviewing a cat. Garrett Brnger, of WICS-TV in Springfield, Illinois, reported Wednesday that water rates were going up 27 percent in nearby Jacksonville. The reporter said he wasn’t able to...

It’s official: Krokodil has reached the United States, and doctors say it’s posing a real threat. The extremely addictive, injectable opioid is made by mixing codeine with some combination of gasoline, paint thinner, iodine, kitchen and bathroom...

A controversial antiabortion leader with a checkered past has sparked outrage by staging demonstrations outside two north Texas high schools while holding signs that include graphic images appearing to show dead fetuses.;

Even if the implementation of the Affordable Care Act continues to sputter, Jon Stewart said on The Daily Show Thursday night, it’s not outright careening from crisis to crisis like Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Stewart did make sure to mock...

MSNBC host Chris Hayes pushed back hard on Thursday against a member of a conservative group recently linked to a public relations firm that has consistently opposed raising the minimum wage on behalf of the restaurant industry. “How many...

A New Mexico woman has been banned from her daughter’s school because the principal is allegedly concerned about her smell, KOB-TV reported on Wednesday. “He just said he knows this is going to hurt my feelings and he understands...